Broward County Rep. Hillary Cassel announced Friday her decision to leave the Democrats and join the GOP, becoming the second ...

Broward state Rep. Hillary Cassel is now part of a Republican House majority that she has strongly denounced again and again.

With Jason Pizzo leading Florida Senate Democrats, identity politics and progressive politics are out. Others reject the idea ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Democrats’ losses didn’t end on Election Day — a second state lawmaker has announced she’s ...

State Rep. Hillary Cassel became the second House Democrat to switch her party affiliation since the November elections, further adding to Republicans’ supermajority. Hillary Cassel, a Dania Beach ...

Here are five questions we asked of the new Volusia Democratic Party chairman and his responses, edited for brevity. Q:You moved to Margaritaville from Broward County only five years ago.

State Sen. Barbara Sharief, a former Broward County commissioner and mayor who just started her first term in the Senate, said she didn’t think the Democratic Party has been too progressively ...

“It was pivotal,” said Susan MacManus, a Pasco County native and professor ... States,” said Jim Kane, a Broward-based strategist and pollster for Democratic and Republican clients and ...

Cassel represents parts of Broward County, which is considered one of the state’s most reliably Democratic areas. Since no one ran against her in November, Cassel won reelection without ...